Direct characterization is shown when Lina is trying to decipher the message from the builders she suddenly realizes that she should ask Doon because "He was curious.He paid attention to things.( DuPrau 7.98)
Indirect characterization is when Lina loves being a messenger because she thought about it when she was growing up and also that she loved to run "Herself running through the streets of the city in a red jacket." ( DuPrau 1.7)
The theme of this book is Teamwork, Lina and Doon work together to complete a task never imaginable.
1) "Once they were out the door, Lizzie said goodbye and scurried away, as if Lina's bad luck were a disease she might catch" ( DuPrau 1.58). You should treat as if their misfortunes might be contagious.
2)" When they were younger, Lina and Doon had been friends. Together they had explored the back alles and dimly lit edges of the city. But in their fourth year of school, they had begun to grow apart." (DuPrau 2.7). Sometimes friendships fade away. Yeah nobody knows why they happen.
3) When the lunch break came, Arlin took her lunch sack from a pocket in her tool belt and went off to meet some friends a few tunnels away." (DuPrau 3.25). Arlin isn't too friendly to Doon on the first day in pipeworks, but apparently she does have friends of her own among the pipeworks laborers.
Indirect characterization is when Lina loves being a messenger because she thought about it when she was growing up and also that she loved to run "Herself running through the streets of the city in a red jacket." ( DuPrau 1.7)
The theme of this book is Teamwork, Lina and Doon work together to complete a task never imaginable.
1) "Once they were out the door, Lizzie said goodbye and scurried away, as if Lina's bad luck were a disease she might catch" ( DuPrau 1.58). You should treat as if their misfortunes might be contagious.
2)" When they were younger, Lina and Doon had been friends. Together they had explored the back alles and dimly lit edges of the city. But in their fourth year of school, they had begun to grow apart." (DuPrau 2.7). Sometimes friendships fade away. Yeah nobody knows why they happen.
3) When the lunch break came, Arlin took her lunch sack from a pocket in her tool belt and went off to meet some friends a few tunnels away." (DuPrau 3.25). Arlin isn't too friendly to Doon on the first day in pipeworks, but apparently she does have friends of her own among the pipeworks laborers.